UNCAC

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UNCAC

• Prevention
• Criminalization
• International Cooperation
• Asset Recovery
• Implementation Mechanisms

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Prevention

• Directed both to public and private sectors
• Establishment of anti-corruption bodies
• transparency in financing of election campaigns
  and political parties
• public services subject to safeguards that
  promote efficiency
• Professional and merit-based civil service
• Public finance
• Judicial independence and integrity
• Civil society participation

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Criminalization

• Covers wide range of acts of corruption and those
  not already covered under domestic law
• In some cases legally obliges States to establish
  offences
• In other cases, takes into account differences in
  domestic law
• Goes beyond previous instruments of this kind
• Criminalizing not only basic forms of corruption
  such as bribery and embezzlement of public funds

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Criminalization

• Trading in influence and concealment of
  laundering of proceeds of corruption
• Offences committed in support of corruption,
  including money laundering, and obstruction of
  justice, also covered
• Problematic areas of private sector corruption
  included

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International Cooperation

• Countries agree to cooperate with one another in
  every aspect of the fight against corruption,
  includingPrevention, Investigation, Prosecution
  of offenders
• Countries bound by specific forms of mutual legal
  assistance in gathering and transferring evidence
  for use in court to extradite offenders
• Measures to support tracing, freezing seizure and
  confiscation of proceeds of corruption

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Asset Recovery

• Major breakthroughcountries seeking the illicit
  assets had to be reconciled with the legal and
  procedural safeguards of countries whose
  assistance is sought
• Specifies how cooperation and assistance will be
  rendered
• Sends message that corruption will not be
  tolerated